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Toe to Toe: Karr

By Ryan Karr | October 27, 2008

By the time you (whoever you are) read this, you will have much more information than I do. Mr. Schmidley and I are predicting who will win the World Series just hours before game four is played.

Sidny Ginsberg '12 acts in
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Students stay up all night for WiRED, immersed in theater

By Allison Levy | October 27, 2008

Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff At eight o'clock Saturday morning, while most of campus was still sleeping off Friday night, a small group of dedicated student actors filtered into the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. There they joined three pairs of playwrights and directors who had spent the last 12 hours chugging coffee as they penned three short plays for this Fall term's WiRED -- a theatrical challenge that invites its participants to write, cast, rehearse and perform plays within a 24-hour period once every term. As usual, the final product, performed at eight o'clock Saturday evening in the Bentley, provided plenty of laughs.

Sports

Offense struggles for women's soccer against Columbia

By Dana Malajian | October 27, 2008

Dartmouth women's soccer failed to come back from an early deficit in its 3-1 loss to Columbia University on Friday night in New York City. The Lions (10-3-2, 3-1-1 Ivy) jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first eight minutes, and Columbia did not allow the Big Green offense to score all game.

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Men's soccer storms out of the gate to best Columbia, 3-1

By Nick Binder | October 27, 2008

The Dartmouth men's soccer team bounced back in a big way Saturday afternoon as the Big Green took a commanding 3-1 victory from Columbia University in New York City. Columbia scored in the final minutes of play to get on the board, but the late effort was not enough after a two-goal day by forward Lucky Mkosana '12. The victory moves Dartmouth to 7-5-1 (2-1-1 Ivy), while Columbia drops to 3-10-1 (1-3-0 Ivy). The Big Green is now in fourth place in the conference, while the Lions are in seventh place.

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Volleyball falters during roadtrip with two league loses

By Tianchi Xu | October 27, 2008

A dogged display of fierce rallies and team consistency were not enough for the Dartmouth women's volleyball team, as the Big Green dropped Friday night's match in straight sets to the University of Pennsylvania and faltered late against powerhouse Princeton University on Saturday. The Big Green (6-12, 2-6 Ivy) and Penn (8-11, 4-3 Ivy) remain in sixth and fourth place in the league, respectively, after the weekend action.

Tim McManus '11 was all over the field for Dartmouth Saturday, gaining yards passing, rushing and receiving.
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Late drive opportunity falls short as football falls to Lions

By Paul Glenn | October 27, 2008

Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff Alex Jenny '10 lined up at Columbia University on Saturday in a critical situation -- down a touchdown with less than two minutes on the clock, ready to lead a drive into the wind and pouring rain to tie the game. But in a season where little has gone right for the Big Green, the misfortune continued, as Andy Shalbrack picked off Jenny's pass over the middle, securing a 21-13 victory for the Lions. It was head coach Buddy Teevens' first-ever loss against Columbia (1-5, 1-2 Ivy), as a player or a coach. With the win, the Lions snapped their 13-game losing streak and extended Dartmouth's (0-6, 0-3 Ivy) drought to eight games without a victory. The Big Green is last in the league, while Columbia is now in seventh place. Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania are tied for first heading into next weekend's head-to-head contest in Philadelphia, Pa. Both teams were forced to battle a driving rain and swirling wind that gusted up to and above 40 miles per hour, breaking many of the umbrellas in the sparse crowd, officially listed at 2,161. Both teams used two quarterbacks in the game, but it was Columbia that found the mid-game swap to be more effective. M.A.

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Daily Debriefing

By Hank Nelson and Fan Zhang | October 27, 2008

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will donate more than $10 million to scientists researching creative medical proposals, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Burns details struggle with cancer

By JONATHAN ERDMAN | October 27, 2008

John Burns, New York Times London Bureau chief and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, for the first time publicly shared the details of his struggle with cancer to a full auditorium of approximately 150 attendees at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Thursday.

Construction on New Hampshire Hall will likely be completed by spring.
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New Hamp to reopen Spring term

October 27, 2008

Jared Bookman / The Dartmouth Staff The ongoing renovation of New Hampshire Hall has led to several power outages in adjacent Topliff Hall, where smoke detectors in residents' rooms have been set off at least twice this fall due to construction-related complications.

Community members celebrate Diwali on the Green Sunday evening.
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Diwali celebration lights up Green

October 27, 2008

Sarah Irving / The Dartmouth Staff Fireworks spewed green sparks, illuminating the colorful clothing of the crowd gathered on the Green for Diwali, the Indian "Festival of Lights." The saris and skirts of southern India, the turbans of Punjabi Sikhs and the North Face jackets of Dartmouth students were all brilliantly lit side by side at the Dartmouth celebration of the Hindu New Year. The ceremony began at Rollins Chapel, where Hindus from Dartmouth and the local area worshipped before the idol of Lakshmi Puja, the goddess of wealth, good fortune and prosperity for the New Year. "These idols are a way for the human mind to comprehend an omniscient God," Tanuja Kulkarni '10, president of Shanti, the Hindu student organization, said. Though many of the worshippers at the event were Hindu, there were several Sikhs present as well.

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Residents feel heat of inflated energy costs

By Drew Joseph | October 27, 2008

As the price of oil heads to $60 per barrel and gasoline sits below $3 per gallon, many consumers may assume that energy price worries have been assuaged, according to Merilynn Bourne, executive director of Listen Community Services, an Upper Valley nonprofit group.

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Daily Debriefing

By Caroline Duffy | October 24, 2008

The College Board announced the release of a new standardized test for eighth-graders, available next fall, according to The New York Times.

Google engineer Marc Donner gives a lecture on practical problem solving at the Rockefeller Center Thursday.
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Google engineer explains pragmatic problem solving

By Nathan Swire | October 24, 2008

Ricky Melgares Through a series of "war stories" from his years working in the computer science industry, Google engineering director Marc Donner illustrated pragmatic problem solving, the topic of his lecture at the Rockefeller Center Thursday. To describe how pragmatic problem solving works, Donner recounted three "shaggy dog stories," which he defined as stories that take a long time to get to the point. In his first story, Donner demonstrated the importance of fully understanding a problem before attempting to fix it. "Security is often a matter of identifying the actual problem and solving it, rather than using huge amounts of technology," he said. Donner recounted the recurring appearance of graffiti on New York subway trains in the 1970s and 1980s.

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By Neera Chatterjee | October 24, 2008

Young voters will play a critical role in this year's election because the central issues directly affect their future, Former New Hampshire Governor and Democratic candidate for U.S.

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